I have always struggled with properly punctuating titles, such as those of books or movies. Over the years, I have been told that I can use italics, quotation marks, or underline. As a result, I cannot remember which form is correct. I finally figured it out the other day. Underlining was used a lot when handwritten papers were more common that typed papers. AP Style uses quotation marks for titles. MLA prefers to use italics for books or movies, but likes quotation marks for short stories. Because I switch back and forth between MLA and AP Style in my classes, I have not been able to remember the rule of how to punctuate a title in a piece of writing. “The Associated Press Stylebook” has finally taught me the proper way to punctuate a sentence. Now I just need to remember that quotation marks are for AP Style and Italics are for MLA.
I work at a golf course so I receive its monthly emails. I read them so that I am informed of all of the events taking place. I noticed that the word “association” was misspelled. I am not sure how that happened since the misspelled “association” was the second one in the paragraph. My guess is that my boss was in a hurry and missed the typo.
I also have struggled with how titles are punctuated. I have heard so many various rules on how to punctuate them that I just have to Google it every time I use a title. I will need to study the stylebook on what AP prefers. Thanks!
ReplyDeletehaha! That is a large typo. I have had those types of things happen to me too, when I am in a hurry I tend to mistype or write things.
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